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Michigan auto union officials convicted in extortion scheme A federal jury in Detroit has found two United Auto Workers (UAW) officials guilty of prolonging an 87-day strike at General Motors facilities in Pontiac, Michigan in order to pressure management to give jobs to friends and family members. The jury returned the verdict June 26 after little more than one day of deliberations....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:28am PDT
Bay Area Nurses Take to the Streets 
Three hundred nurses and allies marched in Oakland July 11th to demand protection of right to organize and advocate for patients....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:29pm PDT
7/14 SF Hilton Siege Picket San Francisco HERE UNITE Local 2 workers are still without contracts for 4,000 workers. On
Friday July 14, 2006 from 12 noon to 6:00 PM there will be a Hilton Siege Picket at the SF Hilton
which is located at O'Farrell and Mason St. San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 12:54pm PDT
7/11 Protest In Oakland Over NLRB Union Busting The NLRB is seeking to prevent supervisors from being in unions. This will eliminate many
workers from being members of unions including the CNA, ILWU, IUOE and others....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 11:25am PDT
60th Anniversary Celebration of 1946 Oakland General Strike Oakland YWCA
1515 Webster Street, at 15th Street
Oakland, California...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 5:55pm PDT
SF: Labor and Organizing: Lessons for Labor ILWU Local 6 Hall
255 9th Street, near Howard, San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 1:13pm PDT
SF: Solidarity Has No Borders ILWU Local 10, Henry Schmidt Rm
400 North Point St. at Mason, SF...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 1:08pm PDT
SF General Strike Walk starts Harry Bridges Plaza - Front of Ferry Building
Embarcadero, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 10:30am PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 1:01pm PDT
A Congress with Marie Antoinette Values: The Politics of the Minimum Wage Whatever led to the metastasis of corporate demons inside the brain of the Democratic Party over the last thirty years, it has paid off the business establishment. The cost of freezing the minimum wage has deprived millions of working Americans of trillions of dollars for their necessities of life....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 8:16am PDT
SF: International Working Class Film & Video Festival Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., at 25th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 9:03pm PDT
SF: Writers Workshop With Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The Exit Theatre
156 Eddy St., San Francisco (near Powell BART station)...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 8:58pm PDT
Labor Fest- Presente! (Book Reading) Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St. at 20th, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 8:51pm PDT
A MODEST PROPOSAL- RECRUIT, RUN INDPENDENT LABOR MILITANT CANDIDATES IN THE 2006 ELECTIONS IN THE TIME OF THE GREAT FEAR WE NEED OUR OWN CANDIDATES....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 10:21am PDT
Black security officers march for freedom from poverty Los Angeles (PRNewswire) – Hundreds of mostly Black security officers, joined by the NAACP, SCLC, elected leaders and community groups from South L.A. marched downtown on Friday to the Building Owners and Managers Association headquarters, protesting poverty conditions in the private security industry....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:49am PDT
Protesters to Bush, Talent: ‘Show us the raise!’ ST. LOUIS — Over 600 trade unionists, community activists, peace activists and students protested President Bush’s visit here June 28. Bush was in town for a $2,000-a-plate fund-raiser for right-wing Missouri Sen. Jim Talent, who faces strong opposition from Democrat Claire McCaskill, the state auditor....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:36am PDT
Israeli Municipal Workers Protest Lack of Wages Just as in the US, the Israeli workingclass derives no benefit from the warmongering policies of its government. In Israel, the workers in one town went on strike protesting lack of wages for a month. The class struggle prevails in Israel, as everywhere....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 3:57am PDT
N.Y., Georgia Courts Reject Gay Marriage he top courts in two states dealt setbacks to the gay marriage movement today, with New York's highest court ruling same-sex unions are not allowed under state law and the Georgia Supreme Court reinstating a voter-approved ban on gay marriage....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 11:04am PDT
New Zealand government demands further wage restraint as living standards decline New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen last month warned workers against expecting significant pay rises, even as the cost of living sharply increases. Speaking to a parliamentary finance committee on June 14, Cullen gave his backing to Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard. A week earlier Bollard had proclaimed that wage restraint was necessary to curb inflation, which the bank forecast would rise to 3.9 percent....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:23am PDT
In the Stagnation Trap: Capitalist Development Demands for a different distribution and redistribution, for economic democracy and social regualtion opposing market radicalism must be in the foreground. Crisis and opportunity are represented by the same Chinese letter. Repressing crisis and blind spots is the path of least resistance and denial....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 5:06am PDT
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